The Ursinus Weekly, December 12, 1949

Women select four to appear on ballot for May sovereign • Twelve receive Who\u27s who honors • Students anticipate traditional roster of yuletide events • Men\u27s council clarifies stand on frosh customs • Music group plans January 5 concert • Yuletide setting pervades starlight ball • Messiah ensemble wins new acclaim • Ruby sells greeting cards, plans welcome-back dance • Bear quintet loses 73-54 to strong Moravian five • Cubs score victory in greyhound game with 44-36 margin • Court coeds report for daily practice; experience lacking • Jayvees win third; down Lehigh 48-46 in thrilling battle • Ursinus rallies too late; Engineers triumph 49-42 • Players to receive fall sport awardshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1580/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, March 19, 1951

Greek letter groups take in Spring rushees • Artist\u27s Life by Ruth Feidler wins Pageant contest • Students contribute record $175 to drive • Students to take part in Model United Nations talk • Debaters to attend parley • 3 seniors named into honorary dramatic group • Plays feature intense drama • Student vocalists to appear in HMS Pinafore • Board names Mary Yost to editorship of Weekly • Spring play cast headed by Henry, MacMullen, Grove • Lantern out Wednesday • YM-YW committee plans nomination • Seventh Heaven to be theme of Junior Prom April 20 • Letters to the editor • Robert Thompson\u27s death was \u2710 campus tragedy • Track squad loses three star runners • Girls, boys to play ball; WAA to reap benefits • Miller selected to coach \u2751 Ursinus tennis squad • Students feel press of daily problems; Studies, food and money predominate • South Pacific remains work of art worth waiting for • Swimming team defeats Pennsylvania by capturing four first place honors • Figures released in district scoring; Swett places 18th • Temple hands girls first court defeat • Weekly sports quiz • Badminton team downs Pennsylvania squad, 3-2 • Vadner\u27s last minute field goal defeats Rosemont; Belles trounce Albright 51-19 • Forum speaker opposes rearming West Germany • WSGA discusses Community Chest, changes in elections • Dart contest planned • Opportunities in ROC • Food council lists guests\u27 meal prices • Psychiatrist to talk • Soph dance a hit • Helfferich to read • To show movies • Meistersingers give Palm Sunday concert • Chess Club wins • Students asked to give blood again; 200 pints needed • Mrs. Alfred Creager speaks at meeting of Chi Alpha Societyhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1563/thumbnail.jp

First-year Experience Course: Problem Solving, Inquiry, and Integration

In an effort to address academic deficiencies outlined in recent studies, Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment redesigned its first-year experience class to fit their activities into three components of activities: problem solving, inquiry, and integrative learning. The problem solving component required students to define a problem, identify problem-solving strategies, and propose solutions and hypotheses. The inquiry component of the first-year experience included selecting a research topic, learning how to access information about the topic, learning how to evaluate existing information about the topic, and deciding which information to use to achieve desired results about the topic. The final component of the program, integration of learning, connected different programs of study with in-class learning and outside experience. This component also stressed exploring the relationship between student’s self and their learning experiences. To evaluate these three categories, the Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire and the Information Literacy Test surveys were administered to the students at the beginning of the semester and the end of the semester in order to evaluate student growth in each category, as well as students’ own self-awareness. Quantitative analysis of these two surveys illustrates the effectiveness of the assignments associated with each component. Knowledge gained from the redevelopment of the class, quantitative analysis of the surveys, and plans for additional amendments to the class will be shared during conference proceedings

Sustainability Beliefs of First-year Students in Natural Resources

A crux of the environmental problem is change resistance and few college students possess the critical analysis and persuasive communication skills needed to engage in this dialogue. Furthermore, there is little appreciation among college students for the diversity of beliefs regarding sustainability issues. We surveyed students enrolled in a First-Year Experience class in Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment. We used the Dunlap and Van Liere New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) measurement scale to assess the individual student orientations toward nature and the environment. The students enrolled in this class had enrolled voluntarily based on their interest in the study of the environment or natural resources. Therefore, it was no surprise that the score reflected a belief orientation towards sustainability. Survey results allowed these first-year students to discover the range of opinion among members of a relatively homogeneous sample. The survey provided insights regarding the human-centered or eco-centered orientation of their student peers. We used these findings to encourage revision of a draft problem-solving essay. We plan further use of the NEP measurement scale in our curriculum and encourage its adoptions by instructors involved in pedagogy of sustainable thinking

The Ursinus Weekly, May 1, 1950

Frosh, sophs, and Y offer varied weekend activities • General Synod to meet at Ursinus this summer • Expert to lecture here on Tuesday for IRC discussion • Curtain Club gives play this Tuesday; authored by Swan • Schmidt is chosen new Lantern editor • Women elect WAA and WSGA leaders • Eleven Y posts filled by YW-YM presidents • May Day play gets finishing touches • WSGA completes year with important activity • Y panel censures both scientist and layman • Dreschler elected pre-legal head • Gross chosen moderator • Tait to address pre-med society • Files reveal origin of May Day fetes • Y committee directs campus tours for visitors to Ursinus • Bomberger and Baxter are named head waiters • Future lawyers warned of poor job prospects • Munson speaks on law to pre-legal members • Alumni group to feast seniors at May dinner • Theater: Margetson in Clutterbuck • Six Ursinus track men compete in Penn relays • Tennis elucidated by Weekly writer; emphasizes scoring • Linksmen lose 9-0 to Blue Hen squad • Injury-riddled cindermen fall to diplomats 88-38 • Bears bow to Garnet 8-6 in eleven inning contest • \u27Ruby\u27 arrives this week; deficit faces senior class • Mattern to speak at vespershttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1591/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, October 2, 1950

B-listers roll up big 63-40 victory over Dean\u27s team • Enrollment drops to 805; Freshmen number 197 • Pre-medders plan to present talks at their meetings • Co-editors of 1950 yearbook announce appointment of 13 department leaders • Japanese educator visits F. I. Sheeder and College • Y members clean recreation center • Curfew notice • Editor announces positions available on Lantern staff • Improper parkers served notice • Y schedules events for near future; Rally Wednesday • Thespians to hold reception Tuesday at Super House • Omwake leaves Ursinus to accept Virginia post • Robert Rosenberger confined to St. Joseph\u27s Hospital, Reading • Veterans notices • New course offered • Editorial: Destiny; Welcome • Councils clarify freshman customs • Frosh girl hails from Iraq • Scribe pens WSGA notes • Y reception committee expands activity; Wins plaudits for its freshmen program • Ursinus grad gains Bowling Green post • Public causes problems for seeing eye dogs • In memoriam • IRC plans Lehigh trip to hear talk on China • Whistler and cohorts boost morale as fighting spirit invades campus • Studio Cottage singers • Gurzynski first alumnus to guide Bears since 1931 • Booters start practice under genial Dr. Baker • Drexel whips Bears 26-0 to open \u2750 grid season • Gerry Roughton escapes Korean crisis; Evacuates Seoul during red onslaught • ETS announces law admission and grad record exam dates • Pancoast constructs new home; Summer work aids completionhttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1546/thumbnail.jp

The Ursinus Weekly, October 16, 1950

Ruby to give original show November 10 • Doctor to present pre-med program • Chi Alpha to discuss revision of pre-theo studies Tuesday • Lantern staff announced • Frosh present talent and variety show as highlight of new customs system • Sixty attend retreat at Camp Fernbrook • Men\u27s Student Council revises customs, punishes offenders • College to confer degrees at annual Founders Day • Reception in gym to be inaugurated Old Timers Day • WAA organizes sales, discusses constitution • Czech exile to talk at Forum Tuesday • Gottshall named president of Beardwood Chemical Society • Dolman to present reading • Editorial: To be, or not to be - exemplary • Dr. Garrett relates experiences of trip • Lukens works on antique cars • What is your opinion of customs? • Flickingers confuse Ursinus students, but twins, unperplexed, see eye to eye • Twenty-three attend meeting of political action commission • Kershner writes treatise on Hodgson, world-famous poet recluse of Ohio • Saturday\u27s game gives fans opportunity to observe old time college football • Ashenfelter trains with Bruin runners • Booters suffer 3-1 loss to Muhlenberg; Light scores lone tally for Bears • Keyser elected captain of 1950 hockey squad • Dickinson hands Bruins third straight loss, 39-6 • Debaters schedule public engagementshttps://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/weekly/1548/thumbnail.jp